Seventy-six-year-old hermit & nudist Masafumi Nagasaki on Sotobanari island (© Stringer/Reuters/Landov)

Retiree has spent last 20 years naked on remote island

4/18/2012

Plenty of retirees head off to Florida or Arizona, but one Japanese dude decided to spend the rest of his life alone and naked on a tiny remote island that plenty would find uninhabitable. 76-year-old Masafumi Nagasaki has been living in the buff on the island of Sotobanari for about 20 years, since he retired from his work in the entertainment industry. "Here on the island it feels right, it's like a uniform," he says. "If you put on clothes, you'll feel completely out of place." He still puts on some threads to go buy food and fresh water a couple times a month. Other than that, it's all birthday suit, all the time.

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